CommonFreddy Woo writes, "My wife thinks calling the front room a lounge is common. Worse, a friend of hers recently admonished her daughter for calling a toilet, a toilet. Lavatory darling. It's lavatory."
My own mother refused to let me use the word 'oblong' instead of 'rectangle'. Which is just odd, to be honest.
What stuff do you think is common?
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chthonic, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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I have a vague recollectionof you telling this tale in the Sun. Or it may have been Legless. Either way, *click*.
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:12,
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...hmmmwas told this last weekend - didn't think it was an urban myth - if it is i shall kick Al in the balls next time i see him.
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